Rice at Texas

Saturday, October 24, 1953

Rice beat Texas 18–⁠13. It was their 40th meeting; after it, Texas led the series 25–⁠15.

AwayRice9–⁠2 in 1953
18
HomeTexas7–⁠3 in 1953
13

FinalHigh 69°F, low 63°FAttendance 48,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Lost-Minute Pass Gives Rice 1913 Decision Over Texas

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 25, 1953, page 68

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    Lost-Minute Pass Gives Rice 1913 Decision Over Texas after d 1877 loss to sMU last week The lead changed hands three times after Texas went ahead in the first quarter on a 1-yard plunge by George Robinson. Rice put on the same kind of furious drive in the second quarter that it did in the final period, scoring 19 seconds before the midway gun on a 9-yard sprint around right end by Dickey Moegle. Fenstemaker converted to put Rice ahead 7–⁠6. Texas roared in front again in the third on a 27-yard pass from Charlie Bre;cr to End Menan ScnrieWer in t2e END zone. Pat Tolar of Texas intention ally grounded the ball in the end zone twice to give Rice four points as TeXos tried unsucceSsfully to make its two touchdowns stand up. Texas - 9 O 7 O-13 Rice q r q 1l-I8 Texas scoring: Touchdowns-Rob robinson, Schriewer. Conversion Branch. H,2t Rice sGoring; Togchdf1wnsmMOegIe a t e s--Tolar ca Intentionally grounded ball in end zone).

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Texas 68% to win. Rice pulled the upset.

Texas leads 75–⁠21–⁠1 in 97 meetings, counting the 57 since this game.

Recent meetings
2023Texas 37, Rice 10
2021Texas 58, Rice 0
2019Texas 48, Rice 13
2015Texas 42, Rice 28
2011Texas 34, Rice 9
2010Texas 34, Rice 17

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